What are the real goals of budgeting? How do you make your budget easy, sufficient, and accurate?
An opinion column for developers. Brutally honest, no pulled punches.
What are the real goals of budgeting? How do you make your budget easy, sufficient, and accurate?
Why do managers foolishly demand planning precision? How can you achieve precision and accuracy?
Why do some executives choose to go for it all? How can you work harder yet produce less?
Who determines whats important? How do you balance urgent against important?
Who makes decisions? How do you assume control when others hesitate?
Are project planning and Scrum compatible? What are the goals of each and what they need from each other?
Why do managers insist that engineers do the wrong thing? What’s the difference between meeting commitments and managing risk?
Why is shipping so important? How does shipping services really differ from shipping packaged products?
What’s the biggest challenge with task estimates? What are management’s top feeble fallacies about estimates?
Why do people lie and what can you learn from it? How do you refute and resolve common deceptions?